Ed Greshko wrote: > >> If there's no downside to having them, why is there a dialogue for >> disabling them? If the dialogue is required, a) why is it so damn stupid >> and b) why aren't the settings preserved across updates, as they are for >> every other configuration option Firefox has? There's really no excuse >> for this. >> >> > Then is that the "real" bug/problem. > > Why not file a bugzilla that addresses "language pack settings not > preserved across updates"? > > I still can't figure out any benefit to disable them....but seems some > have determined it has value. Wonder what it is... > I decided to spend a little time doing a bit of research..... First of all, if you are running en_US in your environment then disabling languages pack does absolutely nothing since en_US is the default for firefox. If you are running, for example, th_TH (Thai) then th.jar will be loaded and the menus of firefox will be in Thai. If you disable the Thai language pack...then the jar file will not be loaded and the menus will be in US English. So, in summary, the language pack only take up 17MB of disk space....never get loaded into memory (and only one gets loaded) unless you are running in a non en_US environment. The ability to disable a given language pack is so that a user could, if they wanted, to display the menus in English. FWIW, I could see this being useful in my house. I could temporarily disable Chinese to make changes to my wife's preferences without having to ask her ... What does this say? :-) So, the only people the bug of failing to preserve settings would affect would be those who always want their menus in US English even though they are running with their LANG set to something else.....
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